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Summary American sisters claimed $25 million in damages from a cemetery for causing emotional distress.
American sisters Evelyn and Hortense Edwards are seeking $25 million in damages from a cemetery for causing emotional distress caused when they learned that their mother had been buried in the wrong plot.The sisters spent two decades visiting what they thought was their mothers grave and later discovered that the plot contained the remains of a stranger. The cemetery has acknowledged that the plot location in the sisters paperwork was incorrect. The sisters are not convinced that the cemetery has not misplaced their mothers remains.The sisters had bought three plots when their mother died in the hope that they might one day be buried by her side.
